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League of Conservation Voters

Addressing Climate Change Gaining Momentum in States Coast to Coast

Gene Karpinski | Posted 04.29.2013 | Green
Gene Karpinski

President Obama can't solve the climate crisis alone, and this momentum in the states is an encouraging sign for anyone who wants to see our elected officials address the challenge of our generation, our changing climate.

'The Most Anti-Environmental House Ever'

Posted 02.21.2013 | Green

The League of Conservation Voters released their annual National Environmental Scorecard Wednesday, ranking members of congress on their environmental...

Why the NRA Is Becoming the 'Great Oz'

Robert Creamer | Posted 03.15.2013 | Politics
Robert Creamer

It is of course true that in politics the perception of power translates into the reality of power. The problem is that once it becomes clear that you're all hat and no cattle, the myth of power rapidly collapses into a pile of dust. That is exactly what is happening to the NRA.

Fiscal Cliff an Opportunity for Congress to Finally End Oil Subsidies

Gene Karpinski | Posted 02.11.2013 | Green
Gene Karpinski

Across the country, candidates who stood by the environmental community and a clean energy agenda -- including President Obama -- were overwhelmingly elected, while candidates tied to oil and coal companies lost.

Tuesday's Real Winners and Losers

Peter Dreier | Posted 01.07.2013 | Politics
Peter Dreier

The real winners and losers are the constituents and causes who did battle on the ground and on the airwaves, and whose lives and livelihoods will be influenced by what happens over the next four years and beyond.

The Environment, the Election, Money and the Koch Brothers

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 12.31.2012 | Green
Marcia G. Yerman

The efforts to stymie the president in his agenda to improve our health standards through EPA regulations have been spearheaded by monied influences-not only in the presidential race -- but down the ticket as well.

Redford Never Shies from Taking on Big Polluters and Corporate Bullies

John Adams | Posted 12.22.2012 | Green
John Adams

After forty years of standing up for nature, forty years of progress, Robert Redford still looking forward. Still focused on the work we have to do. Still driven by that same passion that first stirred him as a boy in the Texas hills.

Senate Firewall Key for Health and Environment

Laura Turner Seydel | Posted 11.18.2012 | Green
Laura Turner Seydel

The health of citizens and our air, water, and land shouldn't be issues divided along party lines. Protecting our health and the fragile world we live in should be a moral obligation shared by all parties.

Standing Up for Science and Defending Our Environment

Gene Karpinski | Posted 10.09.2012 | Green
Gene Karpinski

If overwhelming scientific consensus wasn't already enough to convince someone that climate change is real and requires immediate action, just look outside your window.

Campaign Targets 'Flat Earth' Republicans

The Washington Post | Posted 07.24.2012 | Politics

The League of Conservation Voters will launch a $1.5 million campaign Tuesday targeting five House Republicans who question the connection between hum...

Today's Environmental Activists Stand on David Brower's Shoulders

Peter Dreier | Posted 08.20.2012 | Green
Peter Dreier

David Brower helped transform environmentalism from a polite cause dominated by don't-rock-the-boat upper-class conservationists to an activist movement that uses political action.

Amanda Terkel

Progressive Senator On Why Conservatives Donate More Money To Super PACs

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 06.11.2012 | Politics

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- No Democratic lawmaker is being bombarded by more negative ads than Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio). So far, GOP-aligned groups have p...

Are There Any Responsible Republicans Out There?

Peter Dreier | Posted 07.11.2012 | Politics
Peter Dreier

The defeat Tuesday of Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana in the Republican primary -- trounced by a Tea-Partier -- is one more nail in the coffin of the...

Matt Sledge

Oil Magnates Help Environmentalist Candidate Win Primary

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 05.24.2012 | Politics

The post-Citizens United world of campaign finance is producing ever more strange bedfellows. One of the two Blue Dog Democrats who lost primary races...

Obama To Get Slew Of Green Endorsements

Politico | Posted 04.17.2012 | Politics

President Barack Obama will receive endorsements Wednesday from the Sierra Club, League of Conservation Voters, Clean Water Action and Environment Ame...

Scott Brown Agrees to the People's Pledge

Gene Karpinski | Posted 04.23.2012 | Green
Gene Karpinski

The League of Conservation Voters believes that when unlimited spending is allowed in the electoral arena, misinformation campaigns by Big Oil and other special interests will be amplified.

LCV Releases 2011 National Environmental Scorecard

Gene Karpinski | Posted 04.09.2012 | Green
Gene Karpinski

This week the League of Conservations Voters released the 2011 National Environmental Scorecard. The 2011 Scorecard reflects the most anti-environment...

'Green News Report' - February 7, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 04.08.2012 | Green
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Romney an...

Outside Groups Attack Warren

AP | By ANDREW MIGA | Posted 12.27.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Watch the political advertising and Elizabeth Warren, the leading Democratic Senate candidate in Massachusetts, either "sides with extre...

Paul Blumenthal

How 'Issue Ads' Against Elizabeth Warren Keep Donors' Names Secret

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 12.14.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- An ad released Dec. 8 by the conservative nonprofit Crossroads GPS, which is linked to Karl Rove, paints Democratic Senate candidate Eli...

Scott Brown Hits Back Against Attack Ad

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 01.01.2012 | Politics

Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) is hitting back against a League of Conservation Voters ad saying that he's "gone Washington." The ad shows Brown throwi...

WATCH: Scott Brown Faces New Attack Ad

The Huffington Post | Chris Gentilviso | Posted 12.25.2011 | Green

In the midst of a heated re-election run, Sen. Scott Brown's environmental record is again under fire. The League Of Conservation Voters (LCV) lau...

Jordan Howard

Green Groups Struggle With Obama's Mixed Environmental Record

HuffingtonPost.com | Jordan Howard | Posted 11.02.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- When Barack Obama was elected president, environmentalists believed a new age of environmental protection and conservation had come. But...

Lucia Graves

Green Groups: Keystone XL Pipeline Obama's 'Biggest Climate Test'

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 10.24.2011 | Green

WASHINGTON -- In a boost for grassroots efforts pressuring the Obama administration to block approval of TransCanada's Keystone XL oil pipeline, the h...

Upping the Ante

Gene Karpinski | Posted 09.26.2011 | Green
Gene Karpinski

This energy and environment spending bill contains more than three dozen anti-environment policy measures that have absolutely no place in a budget measure.